SPD on public safety

The SPD wants to strengthen the police with sufficient personnel, modern equipment, and better working conditions. More money for promotions is meant to clear the promotion backlog, and pay would also be improved. At the same time, the independent police commissioner would be strengthened.

The police should have enough staff. They should get good technology and modern buildings. Police officers should be promoted faster. The police commissioner should become more independent. This person looks into complaints about the police.

Training and continuing education would be modernized and geared to new kinds of operations. All stations would reach the same modern standard in buildings and equipment, duty rosters would be reliable, and paperwork would be reduced. Funding of posts and what the platform calls years of flawed, constitutionally inadequate pay would be comprehensively improved. Transparency, a culture of learning from mistakes, and oversight are meant to secure trust in the police. There would be two full-time contact persons for LGBTQ matters and two full-time equal opportunity officers, and part-time officeholders would get partial release from other duties.

The SPD wants to keep all existing prison sites in the state and not move any more prison places to other states. Housing inmates close to home is meant to support rehabilitation. Open prison arrangements would be used more often.

The prisons in Saxony-Anhalt should stay. Prisoners should not be moved to other states. They should stay close to their families. More prisoners should go to open prisons. There, prisoners have more freedom.

The replacement building already approved for the prisons “Roter Ochse” and “Frohe Zukunft” would be built without further delay. For prison staff, whose work the platform describes as highly stressful, the police emergency pastoral care service would be opened up. Training on dealing with inmates with mental health issues would be strengthened. Independent support services for offenders would receive permanent funding.

The SPD wants to keep supporting municipalities in fire protection and to continue buying fire trucks centrally through the state. A statewide needs plan for disaster protection is to be drawn up by 2031. All helpers are to have equal legal status during operations.

The SPD wants to strengthen fire departments in the state. The state will keep buying fire trucks for towns. There should be money for fire stations. By 2031 there should be a plan for disaster protection.

The program puts a focus on help with renovating and building fire stations. The state firefighters' association is to get a full-time managing director and long-term secured funding. Support for extended driver's licenses for fire truck operators continues, and firefighting sports and competitions get more backing. Children's and youth fire brigades are to be permanently secured and recognized as part of the mandatory municipal task. The needs plan for disaster protection is to take demographics, climate risks and critical infrastructure into account; rigid rules for units are to be reviewed.